Former Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher says he was speechless at a judge's decision stopping a secret investigation into Republican campaign coordination, while former Kenosha County District Attorney Bob Jambois calls the decision "mind boggling."

TODAY ON "UPFRONT" -- THE SECRET PROBE INTO REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN COORDINATION. NEXT, THE JOHN DOE INVESTIGATION OF CONSERVATIVE GROUPS FORCED TO STOP. WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE PLAINTIFFS, THE PROSECUTORS, AND THE 2014 RACE FOR GOVERNOR. THEN, A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN THE 6TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. CAN WINNEBAGO COUNTY EXECUTIVE MARK HARRIS TURN THE DISTRICT FROM RED TO BLUE? AND HUGE TURNOVER IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE. WHY ARE SO MANY LAWMAKERS LEAVING? ? COVERING THE ISSUES IMPORTANT TO WISCONSIN, THIS IS "UPFRONT WITH MIKE GOUSHA." HELLO AGAIN EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO "UPFRONT." WE BEGIN TODAY WITH THE LATEST IN THE JOHN DOE INVESTIGATION, WHICH IN RECENT MONTHS APPEARED TO CENTER ON WHETHER THERE WAS ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN COORDINATION BETWEEN CONSERVATE GROUPS AND REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. LAST WEEK, A FEDERAL JUDGE RULED THE JOHN DOE SHOULD STOP, A MAJOR VICTORY FOR CONSERVATIVE GROUPS AND GOVERNOR WALKER. PROSECUTORS, INCLUDING MILWAUKEE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY JOHN CHISHOLM, HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE WISCONSIN CLUB FOR GROWTH AND OTHERS IN THE 2012 RECALL OF GOVERNOR WALKER AND SOME SENATE RACES, BUT THE WISCONSIN CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUGHT BACK, SUING TO STOP THE PROBE. AND LAST WEEK IT WON. FOR NOW. BUT PROSECUTORS ARE EXPECTED TO APPEAL. WE'RE SORTING THIS OUT TODAY WITH FORMER KENOSHA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY BOB JAMBOIS, A DEMOCRAT, AND FORMER WAUKESHA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PAUL BUCHER, A REPUBLICAN. GENTLEMEN, IT'S GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK ON THE PROGRAM TODAY. LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THE ORIGINAL DECISION BY FEDERAL JUDGE RUDY RANDA WHO SAID THIS PROGRAM NEEDS TO STOP NOW, YOU NEED TO TURN OVER THE EVIDENCE THAT YOU HAVE, AND DESTROY COPIES OF IT. WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU READ THE RULING? WELL, I WAS JUST SPEECHLESS, AND I KNOW I'M GOING TO HEAR FROM MY CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS -- BECAUSE YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE, A REPUBLICAN? I AM, AND I LIKE AND RESPECT JUDGE RANDA. THE RULING WAS SO BROAD AND SO SWEEPING, I THINK, TO HAVE A ENTERAL COURT COME IN AND TELL A PROSECUTOR -- THERE'S NO CONVICTIONS HERE. THIS IS NOT A TRIAL. IT'S AN INVESTIGATIVE TOOL PROSECUTORS USED TO SEE IF THERE IS SOMETHING THEY NEED TO FURTHER PURSUE. THIS GREW OUT OF JOHN DOE ONE, AS I CALL IT, AND NOW A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, SPECIAL MASTER, IF YOU WANT, WAS APPOINTED, BUT HIS WORDING WAS SO TERSE. ANGRY IS THE WAY I READ IT. AND THEN TO SAY, "BY THE WAY, THE GOVERNMENT, THE PROSECUTORS DO NOT HAVE IMMUNITY UNTIL PROBABLE CAUSE IS ESTABLISHED," WHICH I DO NOT THINK IS NECESSARILY EXACTLY CORRECT, BUT NUMBER TWO, DESTROY EVERYTHING. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT. I DO NOT THINK IN THE HISTORY OF THE ANNALS OF WISCONSIN LAW THAT A JUDGE HAS EVER DONE THAT . YOUR REACTION? I THOUGHT IT WAS A MIND-BOGGLING RULING. I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A JUDGE ORDERING A PROSECUTOR TO STOP AN INVESTIGATION IN ITS TRACKS BEFORE THE PROSECUTORS DONE WITH THE INVESTIGATION, ORDER THE PROSECUTOR TO TURN EVIDENCE THAT HAD BEEN SEIZED, AND THEN DESTROY HIS OR HER OWN COPIES -- ABSOLUTELY UNPRECEDENTED. THEN, FOR THE JUDGE TO GO ON -- THE MANNER IN WHICH THIS JUDGE DESCRIBES WHAT PROSECUTORS ARE DOING -- I WOULD LIKEN IT TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JOURNALISM AND YELLOW JOURNALISM. I HAVE NEVER READ A FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT DECISION WRITTEN IN A MANNER THIS WAS. IT'S PITY CLEAR TO MAKE THAT JUDGMENT A WAS ANGRY . HE DESCRIBES ARMED RAIDS, WHICH SIMPLY CONSISTED OF THE EXECUTION OF A SEARCH WARRANT OR INVESTIGATIVE SUBPOENA. WHEN YOU EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT OR AN INVESTIGATIVE SUBPOENA, YOU DO SO WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO ARE TRAINED TO LOOK FOR AND COLLECT EVIDENCE. IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHEN THEY ARE ON THE JOB ARE ARMED. YOU SAID YOU DETECT AND ANGER IN THE TONE OF IT. I CANNOT READ JUDGE RANDA'S MIND, BUT LET'S SAY HE WAS ANGRY. HE FEELS CERTAIN PEOPLE CIVIL LIBERTIES WERE VIOLATED, THEIR FREE-SPEECH RIGHTS WERE BEING SQUELCHED, AND HE IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THAT. I'M JUST SAYING TODAY, WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HE HEARD. THERE'S MORE IN THE DECISION NOW THAN MOST PEOPLE KNOW. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. THERE'S NO SECRET. EVERYBODY KNEW THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE IN THE BACKGROUND. BUT I THINK HE WENT OUT OF HIS WAY, FOR INSTANCE, DESCRIBING THE END RESULT RESULTING IN THE DESCRIPTION OF MINOR CRIMES -- NO, I DO NOT THINK THAT WAS VERY MINOR. AND THEN HE TURNED QUICKLY INTO ISSUE ADVOCACY AND THE MONEY THAT DEALS WITH ISSUE ADVOCACY. EVERYBODY BELIEVES THIS IS A WITCHHUNT, AND THAT IS HOW IT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED, AND I THINK THAT JUDGE RANDA -- HE DID NOT SAY THAT, BUT I'M PRETTY SURE WHEN HE SAID THAT JOHN DOE ONE MORPHS INTO JOHN DOE TWO, WHICH IS WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, AND ALL THINGS WALKER-RELATED. IF JUDGE RANDA'S RULING WERE TO BE UPHELD OVERTIME, WHAT WOULD IT MEAN FOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS? LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD MEAN FOR PROSECUTORS FIRST. THIS IS A CHILLING IMPOSITION UPON PROSECUTORS. YOU WOULD BE AFRAID TO TAKE ON SOMEBODY WHO IS RICH, POWERFUL, HAS MEANS, OR WHAT? HE HAS RULED THAT PROSECUTORS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS TO BE ENFORCING A LAW THAT IS ON THE BOOKS OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT THERE'S 906 INDEPENDENT RETIRED JUDGES, THAT GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INDICATED AS GROUNDS FOR INVESTIGATION, AND THEY SENT THIS OUT TO FIVE PROSECUTORS. THE PROSECUTORS SAID THE CAUSE OF POLITICAL APPLICATIONS, THEY PREFER TO GET A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, AND THEY GOT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, AND NOBODY HAS QUESTION HIS OBJECTIVITY. HERE, HE IS BEING THREATENED WITH BEING PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR BASICALLY DOING HIS JOB. THEN, HE HAS HAD ALL THE EVIDENCE THAT HE SECURED, WHICH, BY THE WAY, HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE IN HIS DEFENSE LATER ON, EXCEPT JUDGE RANDA ORDERS IT DESTROYED AND RETURNED. ALSO, HE SAID THAT THE PLAINTIFFS ARE NOT REQUIRED, NOR SHOULD THEY COOPERATE WITH THE DEFENSE ANYMORE. THEY HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY, NO OBLIGATION TO COOPERATE, AND IF THE DEFENDANTS TRIED TO HAVE THEM COOPERATE TO FURTHER THE INVESTIGATION, IT'S GROUNDS FOR CONTEMPT. THIS IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DECISION, NOT ONLY FOR PROSECUTORS, BUT AS YOU MENTIONED, FOR CAMPAIGNS LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE ISSUES AND THE MONEY. IT'S HOW, IF THERE IS COORDINATION BEHIND THE SCENES, CAN YOU ESTABLISH IT, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THE BACK-AND-FORTH THAT OCCURRED THIS WEEK. JUDGE RANDA CALLED THE APPEAL OF THE PROSECUTORS FRIVOLOUS -- THE HEIGHT OF FRIVOLOUSNESS. YOUR REACTION? THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT INDICATED YOU CANNOT DO THIS UNLESS YOU FIRST DETERMINE THAT THE APPEAL IS FRIVOLOUS. THEN HE DAY AFTER HE SAID THAT, HE COMES BACK AND SAYS IT IS FRIVOLOUS. IT IS MIND-BOGGLING TO ME THAT WHEN THESE JUDGES, THESE PROSECUTORS ARE INVESTIGATING CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR THAT RELATES TO A LAW THAT IS ON THE BOOKS IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN -- THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT IT'S THERE, AND IS ALSO VERY LITTLE QUESTION THAT THIS KIND OF COLLUSION WAS TAKING PLACE BETWEEN THESE ISSUE ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS AND THE WALKER CAMPAIGN. VERY LITTLE QUESTION THAT IT WAS TAKING PLACE. NOW, I GUESS THE QUESTION IS -- WERE THEY GOING TO GET CAUGHT? WHEN THEY DID GET CAUGHT, THEY SAID IT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED. "WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THIS." FOR JUDGE RANDA TO CONCLUDE THAT THAT IS THE HEIGHT OF FRIVOLOUSNESS -- LIKE I SAID, IT IS MIND-BOGGLING, UNPRECEDENTED. I DO NOT ANTICIPATE THAT THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT IS GOING TO LOOK UPON THIS KINDLY. I DISAGREE. I DO NOT THINK THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION, BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. I THINK THIS WILL GO BACK TO THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, AND I THINK ALL OF THE JUDGES ARE GOING TO LOOK AT THIS. I HAVE TO WRAP THINGS UP THERE. FORMER WAUKESHA COUNTY DA BUCHER, AND LATER, THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE JOHN DOE RULING. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE 2014 ELECTION? BUT FIRST, A WIDE OPEN RACE FOR CONGRESS IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN. 6TH DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE MARK HARRIS ON WHY HE THINKS HE CAN WIN A REPUBLICAN-LEANING DISTRICT, WHEN "UPFRONT" CONTINUES.